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Images can't encode knowledge
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Knowledge consists of information that applies to a range of possible situations. Analogue images, however, only carry information about the situations from which they rose; in themselves, they lack generality of application.
Zenon Pylyshyn (1973).
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Images can't encode knowledge
Images can't encode knowledge☜Knowledge consists of information that applies to a range of possible situations. Analogue images, however, only carry information about the situations from which they rose; in themselves, they lack generality of application.☜EF597B
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